- Collection:
- The Joseph Echols and Evelyn Gibson Lowery Collection
- Title:
- Joseph E. Lowery Address at Martin Luther King, Jr. Nonviolent Peace Prize Ceremony, January 14, 1981
- Date of Original:
- 1981-01-14
- Subject:
- African Americans--Civil rights
African American families
African Americans--Economic conditions
African Americans--Politics and government - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
- Medium:
- audiotapes
- Type:
- Sound
- Format:
- audio/mpeg
- Description:
- This audio recording features Joseph E. Lowery's address at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Nonviolent Peace Prize Ceremony on January 14, 1981 at the Martin Luther King Center for Social Change in Atlanta, Georgia. As part of his pledge to preach peace for the first six months of the year (at 00:01:23), Lowery gives his "Black Community Come Home" sermon, inspired by Martin Luther King, Jr. 's "America Come Home" speech, encouraging the Black community to come home. Lowery encourages Black communities to recommit themselves to a new sense of "familyhood", unity, and excellence in order to address racism, unemployment, and the criminal justice system. This audio recording concludes with the singing of "We Shall Overcome" and a benediction.
- Metadata URL:
- http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/auc.199:00611
- Rights Holder:
- Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library
- Additional Rights Information:
- All works in this collection either are protected by copyright and/or are the property of the Robert W. Woodruff Library, and/or the copyright holder as appropriate. To order a reproduction or to inquire about permission to publish, please contact the Archives Research Center at: archives@auctr.edu with the web URL or handle identification number.
- Extent:
- 00:58:12
- Original Collection:
- The Joseph Echols and Evelyn Gibson Lowery Collection
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/fa:199 - Contributing Institution:
- Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library
- Rights:
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